Reading List

[sarahmichelef]

UPDATED 1/17/07

Here are the things currently in my fun-reading queue, in somewhat priority order:

1. George R.R. Martin - A Feast for Crows
   
2. Gregory Maguire - Wicked
   
3. Gregory Maguire - Son of a Witch
   
4. Neil Gaiman - Anansi Boys
5. Roger Highfield - The Science of Harry Potter
6. Sarah Dunant - The Birth of Venus
   
7. Joyce Carol Oates - The Falls
   
8. Thomas Friedman - The World is Flat
   
9. George Crile - Charlie Wilson's War
   
10. Maria Dahvana Headley - The Year of Yes
11. Esera Tuaolo - Alone in the Trenches
    
12. Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
13. Ann Leary - An Innocent, A Broad
14. Gregory Maguire - Mirror, Mirror
15. Jhumpa Lahiri - The Interpreter of Maladies.  Pulitzer-prizewinning book of short stories, one of which I heard featured on This American Life (episode 221: Fake I.D.)
16. Geraldine Brooks - March
17. Andy Hertzfeld - Revolution in the Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made
18. Neil Gaiman - American Gods
19. Lynn Flewelling - The Oracle's Queen (Tamir Trilogy, Book 3)
20. Gregory Maguire - Lost
21. Tom Standage - The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers 
22. Philippa Gregory The Other Boleyn Girl
23. Chris Bohjalian - Trans-Sister Radio
24. Rose Wilder Lane - Ghost in the Little House (rec from beba)

I am, of course, open to suggestions of things that I need to add to this list.

Comments

[notmonochrome.livejournal.com]

The World Is Flat -- this is incredibly dull. Friedman is So! Excited! to have figured out that outsourcing has happened and that we have a global economy, so much so that he repeats himself over and over and over and over....

His conversations with experts are similar to this:

Friedman: Hey! Guess what? I think X=X!
Expert: ...
Friedman: What do you think? Aren't I smart?
Expert: E... =... X.
Friedman: Yeah!
Expert: Yeeesssss. duh.</>
Friedman: I am so smart! Look! The expert agrees!

[notmonochrome.livejournal.com]

Err, the expert knows X = X, she's not trying to prove E = X. D'oh.